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  • 3 - Inferno as Anti-narrative

  • from Part I - Hell
  • Denys Turner, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Dante the Theologian
    Published online:
    02 September 2022
    Print publication:
    22 September 2022, pp 79-114

  • Summary

    Some find the theology of an eternal punishment to be morally repugnant and theologically without warrant. But even if such is true of traditional doctrines of Hell, typified by those of Aquinas, it is not implausible to read Inferno as an “anti-narrative,” among other reasons because the literatures that write of a truly infernal mentality – for example,that of Dr. Faustus in Marlowe’s play – are vastly significant and their significance would not be lost even were Hell as an eternal condition impossible. For an infernal will is psychologically possible, even if the Hell willed is impossible as an existent state of affairs.